“Fitzgerald said that the sign of genius is being able to hold two contradictory ideas in your head at the same time. But what if you hold two contradictory fears? Are you still some kind of a genius?”
― Writers & Lovers
― Writers & Lovers
“It's always a choice between fireworks and coffee in bed,' Fabiana says. 'It always is.”
― Writers & Lovers
― Writers & Lovers
“The most unfair part of it, Wallace thinks, is that when you tell white people that something is racist, they hold it up to the light and try to discern if you are telling the truth as if they can tell by the grain if something is racist or not, and they always trust their own judgment. It's unfair because white people have a vested interest in undermining racism, it's amount, it's intensity, it's shape, its effects. They are the fox in the henhouse.”
― Real Life
― Real Life
“Maybe understanding a language is like understanding the expressions and emotions of other people.”
― Almond
― Almond
“You don't realize how much effort you've put into covering things up until you try to dig them out.”
― Writers & Lovers
― Writers & Lovers
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